Holiday Lights in the Park open

This is one traffic jam you won't mind. Drive slowly through Phalen Park to ooh and ahh over 60 animated sculptures that twinkle in the dark, including reindeer and an underwater shipwreck outlined in lights.

The event has its own soundtrack, "Holiday Lights Vol. 5," recorded by Minnesota artists including the Blenders, Mick Sterling and Phil Thompson. Buy it at Kowalski's grocery stores for $10, which includes a pass to the light display.

This is the sixth year that volunteers with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and King of Kings Lutheran Church of Woodbury have created the display to raise money for Second Harvest Heartland, Union Gospel Mission, St. Paul Parks Conservancy and St. Paul Police Foundation.